SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Deniz Gezmiş

1947 - 1972

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Deniz Gezmiş (Turkish pronunciation: [dˈɛniz ɡˈɛzmiʃ])(27 February 1947 – 6 May 1972) was a Turkish Marxist-Leninist revolutionary, student leader, and political activist in Turkey in the late 1960s. He was one of the founding members of the People's Liberation Army of Turkey (THKO). He was born to an inspector of primary education and syndicalist Cemil Gezmiş and a primary school teacher Mukaddes Gezmiş. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Deniz Gezmiş has received more than 324,920 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Deniz Gezmiş is the 393rd most popular social activist (down from 353rd in 2019), the 832nd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 910th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Social Activist.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.79

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  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Deniz Gezmiş ranks 393 out of 840. Before him are Alice Paul, Toyohiko Kagawa, Chen Qimei, Madan Lal Dhingra, Micaela Bastidas, and Huey P. Newton. After him are Nasrin Sotoudeh, Bayard Rustin, Evelyn Mase, Inge Scholl, James Guillaume, and Kamala Nehru.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Deniz Gezmiş ranks 360. Before him are Franco Trappoli, Svetlana Bojković, Rajko Grlić, Dominique Baratelli, Wenche Myhre, and Natalya Varley. After him are Albert Brooks, Gunnar Hansen, Mihaela Peneș, Laurent Pokou, Stephen Collins, and Akira Terao. Among people deceased in 1972, Deniz Gezmiş ranks 134. Before him are W. Ross Ashby, Lee Beom-seok, Alfons Gorbach, Günter Eich, Miriam Hopkins, and Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. After him are Louise Arner Boyd, Jinichi Kusaka, Antal Szabó, Abeid Karume, Gottfried Fuchs, and Marianne Moore.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Deniz Gezmiş ranks 832 out of 1,347. Before him are Hande Yener (1973), Recep Peker (1889), Nihat Erim (1912), Köprülüzade Numan Pasha (1670), Evagrius of Constantinople (350), and Yıldırım Akbulut (1935). After him are Can Yaman (1989), Adile Sultan (1826), Julia Cornelia Paula (300), Arif Mardin (1932), Basil III of Constantinople (1846), and Tarık Akan (1949).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Türkiye

Among social activists born in Türkiye, Deniz Gezmiş ranks 2. Before him are Hrant Dink (1954). After him are İbrahim Kaypakkaya (1949), Mari Beyleryan (1877), Sakine Cansız (1958), Aslı Erdoğan (1967), Eren Keskin (1959), Cenk Uygur (1970), Hande Kader (1993), Murder of Özgecan Aslan (1995), and Saadet Özkan (1978).

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